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Distractible Kids

by Shalen Parker

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When? 02:52
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how do you do? what do your know? how do you feel? where did you go? how can it be? what do you say? when is the show, if not today? tell me when? my time is pinching gone in an instant when? how did it go? what did it take? when did the wave begin to break? have we arrived? are we there yet? s there a thirst we've yet to whet? tell me when? my time is pinching gone in an instant when?
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Distractible Kids 02:59
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Distractible kids Taking our medicine publicly Egos and ids Complaints of subliminal piracy Fashionless fame Dance of dispassionate tendencies Carving our names Into the tree of conspiracy Jars full of lids Distractible kids Dispassionate eyes Gazing through demi-god optics Search and define Disturbing trends on the uptick Like failing airlines Looking to bend the equations And fix the decline The doubt of a tailspinning nation Perfect and blind Dispassionate minds How can you be, can you be so distractible? (I'm clearly stoned, but I want to weigh in) How can you be, can you be so dispassionate? Distractible kids Lost in the age of transparency Dispassionate twits Dreaming of creative agency Compassionless crimes Stoned in a state of emergency All down the line Full sirens yet no sense of urgency Egos and ids Distractible kids
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I Just Wanna Share the Fire Tonight 03:05
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Is it what we want it to be Or do we just remain Caught up in a comfort system With no compassion for the pain Lately you've been down and distant When you try to explain The way that you've been feeling about it But do we need to know exactly where we are tonight? Other needs will show But I just wanna share the fire tonight Is this where we wanted to be Or are we stuck in space maybe just a bit familiar i guess we never really stray Too far from the patterns of us Too frightened to explain The way that I've been feeling about it But do we need to know exactly where we are tonight? Other needs will show But I just wanna share the fire tonight I wanna be your welcomed liar tonight Build it up a little higher tonight I wanna burn till we expire tonight
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Sad Situations 02:52
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Sad situations Always want the starring role With no hesitation They will run you down in the snow I'm just a lover But I'll tell you what I'll do Stay undercover and I'll give my best to you I will give my best to you I'm growing tired of the places that I've been Look in the mirror I keep saying it ain't him Summer reasons cannot break up all the ice I'm out of season In the autumn of my life I will give my best to you
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Memory Drug 03:26
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She's like a memory drug Mental pictures to move Deep thoughts to lug From her storage space Up to her new place She's busy tidying up Visions to clean, rose glass to scrub Bitter extracts and pulp They go down in a gulp She's just a neuron spark She's waving flashlights in the dark Mind like a photograph Cheat sheet for the polygraph She's got a new fit to throw So many people to see, new thoughts to know But so little time to unpack the mind pull back the blinds And finally find that missing piece to catch and release Sometimes she scares herself When she prepares herself
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I Lost My Place in Line 02:38
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I lost my place in line Maybe lost a little piece, maybe lost my mind I can't believe I'm missing it I can't believe that you're still listening I lost the number you gave then I slunk back into my cave They don't call it a deliverance If where you get to makes no difference It's down to this, the mere our song inspires In cannabis, the wind-up king retires I lost my sense of smell I lost some other things as well Now I dream that I am tasting it Just a memory, there's no placing it They say it might get better But what about hurricane news and self destructive weather With a sense a true distaste in it, they say "If you're not saving it you're wasting it" The storm is true, it materialized You can see it through the gloss in my lost eyes Paralysis by the blue phone light Dying endlessly cool into the endlessly cool blue night
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I See You There 03:32
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Did we talk well into the night? Into the soft late summer night? Did I see you glowing there? The gold outlines, the silver hair Of all the things I do declare I love you, dear I see you there I wished for something to come true I turned around and looked at you And I kept looking through the years Scrolling through your thoughts and fears And oh the rumpus we did start Undercover, heart to heart
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I'm a Shipwreck 04:12
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Too many pages of half wit Too many stages of half lit Half a mind to abandon it This checklist Too many lights on the boulevard Too many cameras standing guard Sneak around Into your backyard Like I'm thieving it's just the beating Beating of my heart Come and kiss me I'm a shipwreck Come and kiss me I'm a shipwreck Let me kiss you Cause just maybe You're a shipwreck too Time to let the pirates find a better way to die I'm going down with you Gonna drown in our surprise When the torrent winds prevail, I'll drop my anchor in your eyes Swim around with you In the sweet reflected light Too many pages of half wit (I don't know what to write) Too many stages of half lit (Do you have a light?) Half a mind to abandon it This checklist
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Clapping the Sunset Out 03:10
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I'm clapping the sunset out Ringing the summer in Sending spring away Here on the longest day Hey, didn’t I see you there? We were just hanging out Clapping the sunset out There on the longest day Colorful scenes Color my dreams on the way By colorful means I colorfully dream I'm awake
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You Are in My Chest 02:33
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I tried to give you ease Wasn't easy when you had me Down upon my knees Less than lovely When it was hard to know If you were gonna show I tried to show up late Keep you briefly waiting In fine fashion by the gate No less than lovely When I fall into The love I have for you Strangest And all the rest You are in my chest

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released January 19, 2024

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Shalen Parker Portland, Oregon

Eclectic, prolific, and returning to recording after many years.

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